The Mariners announced that right-hander Chris Devenski has been sent outright to Triple-A Tacoma. There was no previous indication he had been removed from their 40-man roster but they evidently passed him through waivers in recent days. Their 40-man roster count drops to 39.
Devenski, 33, was signed by the Mariners at the start of July after being released by the Rays. Though he is a veteran with enough service time to decline an optional assignment, he apparently consented as he has been with Triple-A Tacoma for the past few weeks. He made six appearances there and allowed two earned runs.
The M’s presumably have other uses in mind for that roster spot, so they bumped Devenski off. They have already been aggressive in upgrading their offense and bullpen, having acquired Randy Arozarena, Justin Turner and Yimi García in recent days. They’ve been connected in rumors to guys like Tanner Scott and Yandy Díaz, so perhaps more roster shake-up is forthcoming.
As for Devenski, he has more than enough service time to reject this outright and elect free agency, though it’s not yet clear if he’s chosen to do so. Heading to the open market would make some sense, since plenty of clubs will have roster openings after the musical chairs of the deadline plays out.
He was once quite a dominant reliever with the Astros, though he’s a few years removed that performance now. Over 2016 and 2017, he had a 2.35 earned run average in 189 innings for Houston. He struck out 28.2% of batters faced and only gave out walks at a 6.4% clip. Injuries in the coming years, including Tommy John surgery, seemed to hamper his results. His ERA was a combined 4.56 in 2018 and 2019 then a ghastly 9.47 for the 2020-22 seasons.
He then had a pretty unimpressive start to his 2023 season, with a 5.08 ERA with the Angels. But that season finished strong as he had a 2.08 in nine appearances for the Rays. That prompted Tampa to re-sign him but he then had a 6.75 ERA this year, leading to his release and then his deal with the Mariners.
Didn’t even know he was in the system
Who?
Making room for Vladdy 😛
Sr.?
Could still probably outhit half the team
life could be dream
Angel legend
Great…. drum roll @MLBTR. Down to 39 on the 40 man so they are signing…
No way… this means that the mariners are signing… Trevor Bauer!!!!!
Is it just me or have there been less sign Bauer trolls I wonder if they got banned
Just Jerry getting everyone’s hopes up just to say he really really tried hard but couldn’t get anything done
What are you talking about? He already has! He has already cleared the minimum bar he was required to do. Anything that happens today is just added gravy.
We basically got an older version of Ty France with Turner getting Arozarena does help but we need about three bats not one as we saw yesterday there’s a lot of good teams in the American League
The issue last night was giving up 14 runs, the offense looked solid especially with Randy in.
We don’t need three bats we need the ones we already got to revert to their mean as the weather heats up. Julio and Teoscar heating up propelled them last year. The trades plus Julio and Polanco heating up will do it this year.
3 bats? And who should they subtract? Haniger and Garver have big money attatched next year-. That leaves ..?
And what 3 bats do u think he could reasonably acquire?
Ty France is not Turner. Turner hits more, and gets on base way way more often. Miles different. They both don’t hit for power, that’s about the only thing the same about them. And for a team in need of hitters, are you rely going to turn your nose up at any upgrade?
They need Mountcastle or Diaz at first base they got Arozarena and we could use a third baseman and platoon Rojas and Moore trade Canzone and DFA Haniger there’s no way they can keep him on the roster for the next year and 2 months just to justify the salary
Dipoto owes us 40 plus years Seattle fans a world series appearance so he needs to do whatever it takes to get there!
They scored most of their runs off of a reliever that has a 27 ERA so let’s not get too excited about the offense…
What do we do if they don’t heat up enough? Trade for bats
If they don’t heat up but we got a lot of help then we have a shot at the division
If Julio and Polanco and garver heat up and we get more help then we have a shot at the pennant
Garver is junk and shouldn’t even be counted on. Polanco ? Ehh. Yes his occasional “great games or get on base is middling, at best. Not really counting on Julio. I love him, but coming back from injury on fire isn’t and won’t happen.
I have watched the very first Mariner game back in the mid 70s. Been a diehard all my life. But seems nothing really changes unless you change ownership and that ain’t gonna happen.
We have a. Lineup full of AAAA players minus Julio and Aroz.
Something somewhere has to change. And mind you, I e never ever been this critical. Ever of my beloved Mariners. But….
If we get into the playoffs, our superb pitching will prevail, or should! But when you can’t swing the bat on a consistent basis, you gonna be ousted… Sad to watch these owners take our starting pitchers and waste a whole year . But that is exactly what they are doing.
If we had a payroll that was even just below the luxury tax, we would be WS contenders
But no, once an owner goes cheap why would he change his mind and get more expensive
Ty France has been Temu Ty France for about 2 years now.
Look at baseball savant and compare them. Turner even at 39 is a major upgrade.
I wasn’t super pumped about it but the more I look the better results should be from him than what we got from Ty
If you’re happy with minor upgrades to improve this terrible terrible offense then I feel sorry for you..
Read my posts… I am not happy with any of them…
They got Arozarena, Yimi and upgraded Ty France.
I hope there is still one more bat move out there but I am not sure what you expected. Vlad has seemed off the table and people saying Vlad or bust basically don’t seem to realize the other team needs to say yes also.
I can’t think of any big offensive trades off the top of my head right now but it seems pitching has been the trade deadline preference.
Aroz..is it. Pitchers don’t count.
Could care less.. if you can’t score you ain’t winning.
If you WANT someone like Vlad, act like you don’t just throw rumors that you want him.
Sheesh… Atlanta just got Soler, albeit not the same as a young Soler, but to get him for prospects… I think we coulda done something… Time is ticking
Soler trade is essentially a salary dump. He’s 31 mill over the next 2 seasons and striking out at nearly a 30% clip. We have an abundance of 30% SO guys.
I think vlad was targeted a lot more when he was having a down season, he turned it on lately an his value went higher than they were willing to give up. I’s love vlad too but I DO NOT want to gut the whole farm for him. Just to see another plus hitter come to seattle an bat subpar
Oh 8 agree about Soler, but the Braves also know THEY HAVE TO DO SOMETHING. Sense of urgency is missing.
I agree, do not , do not gut what we have built… But Soler and Cal and Garver etc… all strike out way to much. And if Cal didn’t hit bombs out like he does, we would, or at least I would, say he’s gotta go too .. and I love the big dumper, but I don’t like 0-4 with 3x every other day
You really underestimate Cal’s value with the pitching staff. He’s also the most clutch player we’ve had the past 3 years. I agree with Garver but you’ll trade Cal over my dead body.
He owes us nothing. If you don’t like the way the franchise is run, go be a Dodgers fan.
Julio like last year will get red hot & bat like .400 for a month, and then be middling the rest of the season. Consistency of drastic peaks & valley’s is far superior. Trade him for a consistent superstar.
Boras client. Trade him the moment Ford is ready to take over.
*consistency over drastic peaks & valleys
Look what I wrote
He hasn’t done anything besides Aroz. Is this what we are doing nowadays?
“Required to do” WTH.
Are other teams “required” to trade with us? Give me a break, it takes two..
Do you really think the guy who makes more trades than any GM isnt constantly trying? He probably is on the phone 20 hours a day talking to other teams trying to make deals.
All his moves might not work out but you certainly can’t say he doesn’t try. Much more than many other GM’s.
U do know he traded for Arozarena right? One team can’t collect all the top trade targets. At least we picked up one for a change.
My guess is a lefty reliever. Tanner Scott. Dark horse guess is that someone on the 60-day IL is being activated.
There shouldn’t be a trade deadline to begin with. Rosters should freeze on opening day holding owners, GMs, and POBOs accountable for the work (or lack of work) they did in the offseason. Save the mulligans for golf.
This rah rah for Jerry is almost ridiculous. He ain’t done squat
He’s done way more than Jack Z and the other GMs before him
Yes yes he has
I think it’s time for Emerson Hancock to go. He’s are biggest chip, and I know he had a couple spots starts. I just was not impressed. I know he’s young I know he’s still got time to season. I just wasn’t impressed, maybe it was the arm angle. But I just don’t think he’s going to cut it, I think he’s going to turn out to be a Jestus Sheffield. I think they need to put them in a package for another bat. A good bat, a 39-year-old Justin Turner. With a 240 average ain’t going to cut it, Randy with his 240 average ain’t going to cut it. We need a hitter that has a history of hitting somebody with at least a 275 or higher batting average. Someone like an Edgar Martinez. Who can make a real impact!!!
Because those batters are readily available…smh
Emerson is a hard one..never the same once he was injured. Kind of a shame to be honest.
I agree he’ll middle around the league as a reliever have a few. Good years. Hey, it’s probably a cooler job then all of us have!!:)-
Jerry is just trying to be cheap again, and feel the needs with useless remains. This is Justin Turner’s last year almost guaranteed. Hitters always die in Seattle. Look at Richie Saxson. We have a great system that develops pitchers. We can’t develop hitters to save our lives. Look at Evan White, Dustin Ackley All these guys were supposed to be godsends. Save our franchise!!! Jerry don’t know what the f*** he’s doing. And then you got to catcher for a manager. Name one good manager, that was a catcher. And don’t say Mike Sosa cuz he had the angels dynasty with him he had Tim salmon Garrett Anderson just to name a few.
Joe Torre? Bruce Bochy? Yogi Berra? Any of those names ring a bell?
Thank you
It should be obvious that this was to clear a 40-man roster spot for Turner. Assuming he reports today, they’ll likely option Locklear.
But hopefully there is more to come for Seattle.
If the Mariners do nothing else at the deadline the Yankees and the Orioles have had a better deadline than the Ms and they were already better than them before the deadline so we need to get one more bat and another reliever how about Diaz and Fairbanks and then we’re done
Cals contribution to the staff is frickin common sense. He calls a GD great game. That’s not the problem. We can’t win anything major scoring 2 runs a game my friend. Our pitching is top 3 in MLB. Our offense is horrific
If anything I got this convo going…
I mean sure but the convo is just multiple people telling you the same thing and you not listening. Or some crazy takes you have that make little sense.
If you think Cal’s value as a catcher is low because he bats .200 but leads the team in HRs, clutch and commanding one of the best pitching staffs in years, I legit don’t know what to say.
I would rather have signed Cal to a long term contract than Julio when we did. Julio looked great at the time but now looks a bit like it can really bite us in the butt. He’s got a long time to turn it around but he is an anticlutch player. I can’t tell you the amount of times he strikes out in runners on game tying or winning situations. If someone has the ability, show his BA in the 9th inning, it will be bad, his OBP comes from full count walks in the 9th.
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